WEBVTT - Postgame Show: Eagles Win 23-9 Against the Dallas Cowboys 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.480 Well. Jack Peterson said earlier this week when he played here, 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.200 he knew there were two games each season he had 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:10.079 to win the Cowboys games, and after tonight he is 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:12.200 well on his way to accomplishing that this season, and 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:14.840 it comes with first place in the NFC East for 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:17.799 the Eagles heading into a buy it's got to feel good. 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:19.479 We are here to break it down for you on 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.880 the postgame show presented by Rico, Amy Campbell, fran Duffy, 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:26.000 Ike Reese. The final score at twenty three to nine 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:28.840 on Sunday Night Football. Brandon will start with you. Not 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:32.000 the prettiest win we've ever seen from this team, but 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:35.760 a win over Arrival in prime time. Plenty to fix 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:37.840 right on both sides of the ball, Plenty that they're 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.560 gonna have to work on over the extra week of rest, 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:42.519 and thinks that they're gonna get try and get corrected, 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:44.760 you know, as guys get healthy. There were a couple 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.400 more injuries tonight that I'm sure we'll be hearing about 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:49.600 over the next couple of days. But look, this is 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.640 a team that continues to try and find ways to win. 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.320 You know that they built their first win streak now 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:57.760 of the twenty twenty season, beating New York last week, 0:00:57.960 --> 0:00:59.600 finding a way to come out with a win tonight. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.920 Either game was perfect, but there's no such thing, ike 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:04.840 we'd say all the time, no such thing as an 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.160 ugly win in the NFL. These ws are hard to 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.600 come by. Yeah, I got the Eagles at halftime, are 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:14.520 trailing seven to nine. They end up not allowing the 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:16.679 Cowboys to score in the second half, shutting them out 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.319 in the second half, and taking the twenty three to 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:26.640 nine victory with some big contributions from the defense as well. Yeah, 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:31.920 much needed contributions from the defense tonight. The offense struggle 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:38.119 to find its rhythm and get anything going consistently, and 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.280 you know, the defense needed to step up and play 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.000 big tonight. They needed to get some turnovers and they 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.080 were able to do that and even scored a touchdown 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:50.400 tonight to really help put this game away for the Eagles. 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.040 Like France said, you know, it wasn't pretty, but a 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.040 win is a win, a lot to steal work on 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.360 over the next couple weeks before they get back here 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.920 and played the Giants in a couple of weeks. But 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:08.840 you know, it's one of those games where you feel 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.600 good about getting the w But as as a player, 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.760 you know you didn't necessarily play at your best to night, 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.440 especially on the offensive side of the ball. I want 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:21.679 to talk about. Yes, we'll continue to break it all down, 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:23.880 but I think to me, the biggest thing that stands 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.519 out about this game was just the defense continuing to 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:30.040 bail out the offense. The Eagles turn it over four times. 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.160 The Cowboys got three points off of those turnovers, and 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.760 of course we saw that defensive touchdown, that strip sack 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.680 by t. J. Edwards, the return for the touchdown by 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.600 Rodney McCleod, and then also the Brandon Graham strip sack 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.400 at the seven yard line. The TJ. Edwards won at 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:49.000 the twenty one yard line. So just continuing to when 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.240 Dallas was about to put points on the board to 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:53.760 make it go the other way, whether that's giving them 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.880 zero points or of course with the McCloud that's a 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.680 fourteen point swing right there. So just continue that. To me, 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.720 is is the story of this game. Brand Yeah, I 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.760 think really the big thing right now offensively, not only 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.120 are these turnovers, I mean they're they're tough to swallow, 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.120 but too often the turnovers are happening in their own 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:13.440 end of the field. So the NFL are the Eagles 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:16.840 right now lead the NFL by a wide margin unless 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:18.840 something unless I missed something from one of the earlier 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:24.200 games today with turnovers where the opponent starts in Eagles territory, 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:26.440 and that's just I mean, that's that's really tough to 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.720 swallow if you're at the Eagles defense, because you're in 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.800 a very tough spot. Tonight they were able to overcome that, 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:34.160 which is good. Over the course of the season. That 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:35.680 has not been the case for much of the year. 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.240 So I think really when you look at these turnovers, 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:41.680 they're they're happening in really difficult places where you're either 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:43.880 backed up in your own territory or they're in the 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.040 end zone where you're taking points off the board, which 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.200 is almost equally as bad. So the turnovers, they they've 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.280 got to find a way to cut those down well. 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:53.320 And against the Dallas team that I believe only had 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.440 three takeaways coming into tonight, they add now more than 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.560 they more than double that with the Eagles four giveaways 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.240 as well. All right, let's go back over to Lincoln 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:04.680 Financial Field to Dave Spidero. Dave, the Eagles get the 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.800 win Sunday Night Football over their biggest rival for first place, 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:12.720 but not the cleanest game. What's your initial impressions about 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.480 this win. My initial impression is, I wonder how many 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:17.840 times people throw up in their mouth through the whole 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:21.240 is higher game here. That was really difficult to digest. 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:22.640 But I do want to point out some really good 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.640 things about this Eagles team in the game. Okay, so 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:29.599 Michael Jacquette is out there playing cornerback with Darius Slay 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:34.120 on the sidelines. Eagles limited Amari Cooper to one catch, 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.200 I think five targets total non factor. And I know 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.440 Benda Nuci's the quarterback. But the Cowboys came in with 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.480 they had to be creative. They went with their direct snaps, 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.400 the wildcat look, they did the double reverses. They tried 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.000 to get the football out of Nuci's hands quickly. Eagles 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:52.039 were down to Jacquette, promoted from the practice squad out 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:56.040 at cornerback for the second half. They had to use backups. 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.600 Ray Kung Williams at defensive tackle took some reps with 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.960 Malik Jackson outs. So there is this sense that this 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:05.640 defense really overcame smidversity. I gotta tell you I loved 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:09.599 Jim Schwartz dialing up the blitzes. I thought the timing 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.479 of the blitzes was uneven. But when they got home, 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:15.200 they made big plays and the defense won this game 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:18.839 for the Eagles. The offense got a lot to talk about, 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:21.440 got a lot to improve upon. I don't know what 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.400 in the world Carson Wentz is thinking for most of 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:26.080 this game with the throws that he was making the 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:30.280 decisions that he was making. But as we say, you know, 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:32.840 a win is a win is a win, and this 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.880 bye week comes at a great time. Get everybody back, 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.599 Get to the Giants, get to the Browns. Continue this 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.280 little run here. You don't get style points for it. 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:44.560 But they never asked you at the end of the day, 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:48.360 how they just ask you how many? No question, Dave 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:50.960 You talked about the turnovers there at the end. Have 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:52.720 you been around a team that has turned the ball 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.480 over like this and found a way to overcome that? 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:57.320 You know, we're seeing over the first half of the 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.160 year the Eagles have turned the ball over at such 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:01.880 a high rate. Do you envision the scenario where they 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:04.960 can't overcome this in the second half? No, no way. 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:08.039 You know, the turnover ratio is the true barometer of 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:11.520 success in the NFL that in red zone efficiency, the 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:15.000 Eagles must against good teams play much closer to error 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.760 free football. But this game reminded me of two thousand 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.680 I believe it was twenty and twelve opener Fran Eagles 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:24.720 at Cleveland. Michael Vicks, the quarterback Brandon Weedon making his 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:28.080 first start for the Browns. He threw four interceptions. Vic 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.799 threw four interceptions. Eagles win the game on a Michael 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.599 Vick touchdown pass to Clay Harbor with a minute sixteen 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:38.159 seconds left, And you kind of go exhale. Feels really 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.680 lousy as it goes down the throat, but at the 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:42.280 end of the day, when it settles in the stomach, 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:48.320 you got that w and that's all that matters are 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.760 You're exactly right day and I'm gonna stay on the 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.159 offensive side of the ball. One of mocking stars coming 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.840 into this game is how with Jordan my Lot to 0:06:55.960 --> 0:07:00.520 do over there? Right tackle? Has some struggle in the 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:02.240 first half a little bit there, but I thought in 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.839 the second half he played pretty well. How do you 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:07.279 think he did out there to night at right tackle? Yeah, 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.880 I think he played pretty well, But I mean, anybody 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:13.360 who believes that the Eagles are better with Jordan at 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:17.440 tackle right now instead of Lane or Jason Peters is 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:21.119 sadly mistaken. And JP was limping to get through this game. 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:23.560 Eagles try to do anything they can to keep him 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.440 on the field in the second half of the season. Look, 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.240 to me, the story of the offense was too Carson 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.000 Wentz and what's going on in his head when he's 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:34.200 dropping back and throwing into the end zone into double coverage, 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.960 you know, and holding the football. The decision that he'm 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:41.560 making the first turnover was just unbelievable, rolling out to 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.160 the left, had an easy throwaway, held it, held it, 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.840 held it got sacked. I mean, this is stuff that 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:51.200 rookie quarterbacks don't do. That has to stop. That hero 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:55.640 football has to stop, not just Kurt Tail, it has 0:07:55.680 --> 0:08:00.000 to stop. And then number two, Doug went away from 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.480 the run in the first half, and I just don't 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:06.640 understand it. I mean, the Eagles were gashing Dallas in 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.960 the run game, and then late in the first half 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.480 as we did here, we saw in the Giants game. 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:14.880 The offense is stagnated. So a lot of things to answer, 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.840 things to clean up. It's nice to go to the 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:20.240 bye week with a win. It's nice to have a 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:24.520 couple of victories against the NFC East. This division is terrible. 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:28.720 Tonight's football was ugly. I mean, if you're not an 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:32.000 Eagles fan, I'm not sure you're staying tuned into this game, 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.120 to be honest with it was that difficult to watch. 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.800 But I do give the credit to the defense for 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:40.600 bailing this Eagles offense out. All right, Dave, going into 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.800 the bye real quick? Where does the team go from here? Well, 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.600 they go into the trainer's room. They get Lane Johnson healthy, 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.920 they get Malik Jackson healthy. We hope that Darius slays Dave. 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:51.839 I'm so sorry I have to cut you off. Rodney 0:08:51.920 --> 0:09:01.240 McLoud is at the podium. We'll catch up with you later. Hey, Rodney, 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.839 thanks for taking the time. We'll get started here with Dave, 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:08.640 Zan Garrow and then John McMullin. Hey, rod take us 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:12.679 through the touchdown? Will happen there? Shoot? Jim called a 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:16.079 pressure man. I've been called a lot of pressures all night, 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.079 but that was the first time we called that one 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.040 in particular. Just rushed down the middle. Guys did a 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.280 good job. I don't even know who hit him. Ball 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.160 was just scrambling. I really thought we were offsides on 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.880 that play, but the ball was there. I scooped it up. 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.680 I'm running, I honestly thinking man were probably gonna have 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:36.280 to come back and defend him in the red zone. 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:41.080 But I looked and I see touchdowns and man, I 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.680 just yeah, it was just just my time, right place, 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:52.880 right time. John mcmallin and then Rob Moddy, Hey, Rodney, 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:56.400 sure about that? Um, it looks like over the past 0:09:56.480 --> 0:10:00.720 few weeks you've been lining up a all over a 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.800 little bit more, a little closer to the line of scrimmage. 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.359 He is that a fair assessment? And b it seems 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:11.360 like it picks up some energy to your game. Would 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:15.040 you agree with that as well? Yeah, it's good when 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.600 you can, uh, when Jim you know, allows me to 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.920 kind of move all over the place. And tonight, Man, 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.680 the emphasis was putting pressure on the quarterback and that 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:27.040 in that offense, so everybody kind of had their fair share. 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.199 But yeah, just trying to do whatever it takes to win, man, 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.800 And it felt good to come out with the win tonight. 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.800 It was a good uh team effort and defense. We 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:43.920 play lights out, robbing than less told me about a 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:45.680 week or so ago. You don't care how you guys 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:47.880 win football games, as ugly as they can be, as 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.240 long as you win. Do you guys feel coming out 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.280 of this one like you survived? But this was a 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.480 tough battle on least you're coming out going into the 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:58.200 buy in first place. Yeah, I felt like we we 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.440 did what we had to do to win. And there's 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.800 gonna be times where you know, the defense carries the team, uh, 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:05.960 and there's gonna be other times where the offense comes 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:10.040 up big and bills us out. But I mean every 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:14.240 phase showed up tonight, Um when they're when we needed 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.640 them the most. Uh. Special teams included uh coming up 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.920 you know with that onside kick, guys running down on kickoff, 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.719 making tackles. Good to have Rudy four back, Uh, and 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:25.920 then the offense showing up, like I said, when they 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:29.000 needed so. Uh, We're gonna continue to get better. We 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.480 know we have to. Uh there's a lot of things 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.160 that we need to get fixed. Uh, and we get 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.600 we have a time during this by way to correct 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.760 that and then prepare for for the Giants, another division opponent. 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.960 Last and then Paul Hey Rodney, it looked like the 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.240 ball was there and the on the fumble, the ball 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.560 was kind of then he had it sort of and 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:51.880 some guys were wrestling with him, and then it sort 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:53.800 of squirted out towards you. What did you think when 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.720 you saw that? Believe it? Were you surprised? Uh? Surprise? 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.400 It was just secure the bag. Uh. You know what 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.880 I'm saying, Pick it up, make sure you get possession, 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:08.520 and after that, get to the end zone. Like I said, Man, 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.440 I'm glad. I think it was Duke or TJ. One 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.280 of those guys got back on sides. Uh. And man, 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:20.200 I appreciate it because we got to touchdown Paul and Daniel. Yeah, Rodney, 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:23.679 you mentioned the emphasis was on the pressure tonight. Uh. 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.000 Jim doesn't like the blitz a lot, but when he 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:27.840 when he's when he's had a chance to go after 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:31.920 rookie quarterbacks or inexperienced quarterbacks. I remember Luke Fock last 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.600 year when you guys played the Jets. Uh, he takes 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:38.360 advantage of it, doesn't he. Yeah? Correct? Uh, you know 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:40.400 one of the mix up our looks a lot. Uh. 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:44.000 Give him some new blitzes that we haven't put on film. Uh, 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:47.600 And I felt like they were effective. Uh, you know, uh, 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:51.079 they started picking up on our pressures going on quick count. 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:54.920 But man, the d line did an amazing job. You know, 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.640 they've been awesome all year. Uh, they continue to apply pressure. 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.920 Uh so I think it's something that we can use 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:05.520 moving forward. But it was good just to see, uh, 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.160 you know, the pressure be effective. Tonight we have time 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:10.920 for two more, so we'll go Daniel and then ed 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.240 Krafts throughout me. You were down at the bottom of 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:17.560 the pile on the onside kick attempt. I was kind 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:19.560 of going through your mind on that play, with how 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.160 they executed it and what was it like at the 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:25.600 bottom of the pile. Yeah, it was a great call 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.240 about them. I think a lot of us thought about 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.760 fair catching it, but the ball hunk up in the airs, 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.959 you know, so long, it was hard to really judge 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:39.559 that ball. But man, it's it's a scrap at the 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:45.000 bottom of the pile. You know, anything goes and you know, 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.439 it got a little crazy down there, but I ended up, 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:51.480 you know, winning that battle. I was gonna ask you 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:53.920 about that, Rodney, how tough was that wrestling match under there? 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:55.160 I mean, there's a lot of stuff that goes on 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:59.760 in those piles how did you persevere? Man? Just you 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.760 know what I'm saying. I know we need it and 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:06.680 do whatever it takes, you know. So that's what we 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:15.240 did and we got the ball. Thanks Rodney. Yep, Okay, 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.480 that's Rodney McCleod. After the Eagles win this evening. McLoud 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:22.200 of course with the fumble recovery for the touchdown. I 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.640 love that he said, Look, there's gonna be times when 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:26.640 the defense carries the team. There's gonna be times when 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.360 the offense carries the team. And McLeod of course making 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.160 the big play for the defense tonight. All right, let's 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.280 get back to breaking this thing down, um Ike. Let's 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.400 get into some of the big things that stood out 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:42.920 to you this evening. Where do you want to start. Well, 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.800 the first reason why the defense had to carry the 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:49.720 team tonight is because of the offense, in particular the 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:53.520 quarterback play. You know, Carson Wentz play tonight was just 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:57.160 sloppy and it made this game tougher than it needed 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:02.320 to be. You can't have four turnovers, too, bumbles, two interceptions, 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:07.120 just inexcusable play at the quarterback position and night and 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:11.120 Carson wins has come too far along in his career 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:15.280 and now seen him play at MDP heights to have 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:20.440 these types of setbacks in his play and tonight I 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.160 thought it would be a night that he can build 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:24.640 on what he had done over the past couple of 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.960 weeks and sort of take the next step and trying 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.800 to carry this team and plan at an elite level, 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.240 which I know he has the ability to do. But 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.960 tonight looks like he was trying to force the action, 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:40.280 force the plays as opposed to allowing them to take 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:46.200 as nice organic course and allow these things to happen. 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.000 You can't start the game off with the type of 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:52.400 sack force fumble that he had tonight. It really puts 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.720 your defense in the bond. Thankfully, this defense only gave 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:59.040 up three points off of those four turnovers. But this 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.240 game was much tougher than it needed to be tonight, 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.280 and there was a large part due to the play 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:11.240 of Carson Wins. Yeah, Carson. Carson tonight completed fifty five 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:14.240 percent of his passes fifteen of twenty seven attempts, one 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:20.160 hundred and twenty three yards, four sacks, two touchdowns, two interceptions, 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:24.120 and of course the two fumbles as well. Fran Normally 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:28.560 we are talking about letting the Bronco Buck. What did 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:32.440 you see from Carson tonight in terms of all of that, Yeah, 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.280 I mean, honestly, the turnovers have to stop, right, I mean, 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.440 I don't think that I can add anything more than 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.320 what Dave said earlier and then what I just said. 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.680 I think that they have got to find ways to 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.880 take better care of the football. So whether that's putting 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:47.760 him in position to not have to make those kinds 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:49.920 of throws, especially you know, with the wind being what 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:51.880 it was, or if he's just got to make better 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.600 decisions when those kinds of plays are called the But 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:56.880 they just cannot turn the ball over at the rate 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.160 that they have done. We talked about it earlier with Dave. 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.840 I mean, that's not a winning formula. It's not a 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.520 sustainable model for success to be able to turn the 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:06.760 ball over at the rate that they are and still 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.359 get wins on the scoreboard. So I think to ultimately 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:10.959 they have got to find a better way to take 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:14.520 care of the ball. Yeah, of course, getting a boost 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.359 back to this offense with some players who we haven't 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.760 seen in several games, some guys who did really well, 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.600 And yeah, I mean I think we should highlight Boston's 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:26.199 got a career high for him, seventy yards on the ground, 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:29.560 the first touchdown of Jalen Rager. We'll see a little 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.200 bit more of that as well tonight. And then Dallas 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.119 Goddard back as well, just one catch for him, but 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:36.399 also a key part of it as well. So the 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:39.480 weapons are continuing to grow around Carson. It's a matter 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.240 of making those good decisions and putting those guys in 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.240 a position for success. All right, let's continue. What else 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:49.440 stood out to you tonight? Well, let's get to the defense, 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.480 Amy and Frand I mean, they were outstanding tonight. You listen, 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.639 You're going up against a third string quarterback and Ben Denucci, 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:59.840 and I must admit the kid acquitted himself. Well tonight 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.360 looked like a guy who was making his first start. 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:05.520 But he made some nice plays out there for the 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.639 Cowboys the night. But the defense was pretty much in 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:12.520 his face all night. Great game plan from Jim Schwartz 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:17.320 being able to dowal up the pressures, rush, the thought 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.720 process of Ben Denucci, and then they were able to 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:24.679 get a couple turnovers. Obviously the touchdown was huge, but 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:27.359 I just thought the fact that the Cowboys had to 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.320 dig deep into their playbook to come up with a 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:34.720 lot of trickery really just speaks to what this defense 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:38.520 really was able to do in handcuff whatever the Cowboys 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:42.879 wanted to do tonight, really forcing Denucci into some third 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:45.720 and long situations where he had to throw the ball 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.680 and the young guy got rattled, held onto the ball, 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:52.480 took some untimely sacks, and then obviously that big sack 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.640 late in the game, forced fumble from t J. Edwards 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.600 that Rodney McCleod was able to take back for a touchdown. 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:03.120 It was just huge. Really. The Cowboys had maybe one 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:05.440 or two drives when they were able to move the ball, 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.080 but other than the Eagles turning the ball over and 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:11.720 given the Cowboys good field position, I thought this defense 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:16.280 was outstanding tonight. Yeah. For in this Cowboys offense was 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:21.240 getting real creative. I mentioned trying some trickery there, and 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:24.040 that I think that's very well said. We saw a 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:27.760 lot of really interesting creative stuff there, not a lot 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:29.960 of it that was successful against this Eagles defense. What 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:33.000 did you see from the Cowboys approach to this game 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:35.679 trying to set the rookie up for success. Well, I 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.320 actually almost want to flip that to Ike because I like, 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:40.200 I want to ask you, like, if you're a defense, 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:42.399 you come out and open on the opening drive and 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:45.160 you see the double reverse, you see the direct snaps 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:47.600 to Zeke. Does that get you thinking like all right, 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:49.440 like they're trying to pull out all the stops to 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:51.600 you know that they know that they can't just line 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:54.080 up in Winton. Does that like go through your mind 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:59.040 as a defense, Yeah, it really does, the fact that 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:02.520 they ran that double reverse on their first series that 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:06.800 should have raised the antennas of the Eagles defense, And 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:10.359 I'm sure it did for Jim Schwartz that this wouldn't 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:13.760 be the first or last play that you would see 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:16.480 like this tonight, and the Cowboys dug deep into their 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:19.520 playbook with a lot of different plays. I thought they 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:22.320 had some wide receiver passes set up that they just 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:25.040 didn't get a chance to get the throw off. And 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:27.639 as a defense, once you see that stuff early in 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:31.479 the game, that gives you confidence because you know the 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:35.239 offense doesn't have confidence to line up and move the 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:38.440 ball down the field. And I'm not surprised with Ben 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:40.080 the Nuci. There's no way he was going to be 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:42.600 able to just sit back there and throw the ball 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:45.040 against this Eagles defense, they were gonna have to come 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:48.480 up with some creative ways to try to move the ball. 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:50.479 And you knew it would have a lot to do 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:54.000 with reverses and wide receiver runs because the Eagles have 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:57.800 struggled on that earlier in the season. So I guess 0:20:57.800 --> 0:20:59.920 the Eagles should have been able to expect some of 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:02.679 these things. So of course we saw a lot of 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:06.280 great stuff from this defense tonight. I want to highlight 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:08.240 t J Edwards. We mentioned it a little bit. He's 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:10.600